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4. It Was An Intentional Suicide Mission - Mako
As Mako opens, documentary filmmaker Rana Bahgat gets the 2017 Academy Awards treatment. Of course, that edition of the Oscars saw La La Land erroneously announced as winning the Best Picture gong, before it was revealed that Moonlight was the actual winner of that award.
For Rana, her film is accidentally stated as the winner of a prestigious trinket, when in reality it was her filmmaker husband's documentary that was the victor. Added more to Rana's embarrassment, she trips over on her way back to her seat, becoming a laughing stock in her native Egypt and beyond.
Desperate to find a subject matter that can repair her reputation, Rana and her crew of eight - including her hubby Sherif - decide to explore the Salem Express. The Salem Express is a passenger ship that resides on the bottom of the Red Sea after sinking in 1991, and to this day it houses the corpses of those who were trapped in the vessel.
The dive to the Salem Express puts our central group up against mako sharks, in addition to their own dwindling mental states. By the time all is said and done, Rana is the only one to survive this expedition - for which she does finally win her award.
Towards Mako's close, though, we get the reveal that Gharam - who suggested the Salem Express in the first place - lost her parents in the Salem sinking. Gharam's motivation here? She simply wanted to die and be reunited with her family... in turn costing the lives of so many others.